Their immaterial essence-simple forms—
What other bodies that they choose, assume,
And thus reveal themselves to apprehension.
The serpent be my representative,
Whose subtle nature images my craft!
'Tis meet that the arch spirit of treachery
Should take the likeness of a cunning beast.
A serpent I will go, creeping along
The garden o'er the slippery earth, unknown:
My triple tongue shall vibrate eloquent,
Fluent discourse: I will inflate with words
My venom; and the serpent which exhales
Most poison shall the most divinely speak.
Both means must be employ'd; I will seduce
By treachery of two kinds-as a friend,
The man-and as a glozing serpent, Eve.
I will stand by and instigate the sin-
Direct the hand to pluck-the mouth to eat;
Why do I tarry? This day's light shall see
Me the compeer of Man, or Man of me!

Chorus.

Semi-Chorus.

Oh how great has been his fall,
Spirit most ethereal!

Radiant once with light divine,
Prince of all the stars that shine;
Glory that stood in the East,
All thy splendor now hath ceas'd!
Thou star of the fallen,

How low art thou fallen!

How chang'd from us-how chang'd from us!

The rest of the Chorus we shall not extract. It concludes the first act. In the translation of it, we have arranged it to suit our own fancy. The following are the interpolations by Lauder, according to Newton: we have omitted them in our translation:

Quidni? quum gravior orcus sub pedibus tremit.

And lakes of living sulphur always flow,

And ample spaces, &c.

Which is not to be found in Milton. The only passages at all corresponding, are these:

and a fiery deluge, fed

With ever-burning sulphur unconsum'.

And in the description of Pandemonium :

Th' ascending pile

B. 1, v. 69.

Stood fix'd her stately heighth, and straight the doors,
Opening their brazen folds, discover wide

Within, her ample spaces.

v. 722.

Nam, me judice,

Regnare dignum est ambitu, etsi in Tartaro :
Alto præesse Tartaro siquidem juvat,
Caelis quam in ipsis servi obire munia.

Milton translated into Latin verbatim. There are a few other passages in Paradise Lost, which might here be adduced in proof of Milton's having legitimately availed himself of a hint or two from Grotius. Satan, in Grotius, mentions the "plains of Auran" and Eden as stretching far her form or line

Joconda sancti forma se latissumè
Distendit horti :-

and Milton says:

Eden stretch'd her line

From Auran eastward, &c. B. 4, v. 210.

GROTIUS.-Quæcumque visus arbor, aut gustus juvat,

Convenit.

MILTON.-All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; v. 217.

We pass over the rest of the description of Paradise, in which there are features of resemblance; but too general and common to the subject to be original with one writer more than another. Grotius' Satan expresses himself in as haughty language, and vents his indignation at the favour shown to man in as bitter words, as Milton's; but we cannot produce any passages from the two authors exactly concurring in idea and expression. In the sixth book, Milton says of Spirits:

All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear,
All intellect, all sense; and as they please,
They limb themselves, and colour, shape or size
Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare.

v. 350.

Newton has a note on the first part of this descriptionthat it is expressed very much like Pliny's account of God. Quisquis est Deus, si modo est alius, et quacunque in parte, totus est sensus, totus visus, totus auditus, totus animæ, totus animi, totus sui. The latter part reads not unlike the last lines in the version of Grotius:

No eye hath sight to see-
No hand touch to perceive the spirit kind;
The sense detects in them no sympathy:
Their immaterial essence-simple forms-
What other bodies that they please assume,
And thus reveal themselves to apprehension.

Compare, too, the following:
GROTIUS.-The serpent be my representative,

MILTON.

Whose subtle nature images my craft!
'Tis meet that the Arch Spirit of Treachery
Should take the likeness of a cunning beast.
and found

The Serpent subtlest beast of all the field.
Him, after long debate, irresolute

Of thoughts revolv'd, his final sentence chose-
Fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom

To enter.

B. 9, v. 85.

Our limits forbid our extracting any more from the Latin. We therefore refer the reader, who may be curious to compare our translation with it, to the Gentleman's Magazine for 1747, if he is in possession of no better source of information.

ACT II.

Adam. The Angel.

ADAM.

The Day again breaks forth, chasing the darkness-
Vicissitude of rule fix'd by the law

Eternal: the sure order of the Seasons

Returns once more unto the grateful earth

The golden count'nance of the Sun, whose beams
Rise, spreading wider, while the Stars have fled:
Obedient Night retires, and yields to Day;
And from her brother's eye the Moon withdraws.
Oh, how supreme and infinite his pow'r!

By whose strong hand the axis of the heav'ns
Is wheel'd, and with its rapid revolution

The azure firmament, on its two poles

Sustain'd, again appears, and th' earth's huge weight,
With centripetal, centrifugal flight,

Describes an equal circle in its orbit!
The Stars, obedient to the laws assign'd
By their creator, with their influence
Temper the seasons of the year: the Sun
Sheds light from his resplendent locks,

And leading forth her quire of thousand Stars,
The Moon dispels the shadows of the Night.
The sacred voices of the heav'nly spheres
Proclaim his handy-work, and all the Stars
Clap their hands, dancing, and keep merry time
To the swift measures of their harmony:
This world so glorious, of itself, alone,
Dictates to us to worship and obey

The great Creator of all things, nor lets us
Cling to the earth, but snatches us away

Unto those loftier realms and infinite,

And leads us to the Mind's first cause, and home.

THE ANGEL.

Oh! bless'd of creatures, thou, within whose soul
The noble image of the great God shines;
And unto whom is giv'n that which, itself,
Alone, is best of gifts, and greatest good,
The use of reason with a sense of God!
Adam! behold how greatly thou excellest
The rest of all creation! look-these rocks,
These stones-from them did the Almighty hand
Make thee: nothing that lives and moves, but first
The parent Nature gave it motion, life:

The trees, which thou behold'st, put forth their leaves,
And bear their fruit; they grow in years, and then
Linger with age until they rot away:

Yet plants enjoy no pleasure, feel no pain.
The fishes, beasts, and birds that cleave the air
See colours, and hear voices and all sounds,
And can distinguish smells, and by the taste
Approve their food, and have the sense of touch:
They learn that which is noxious, how to shun—
That which is good for them, to seek-impell'd
By instinct; reason none have they to guide,
Nor thoughts exchange with mutual discourse,
And no religion teaches them of God:
In a brief life is summ'd up all their bliss.
To thee, besides mere life, a soul is giv'n
Immortal, incorrupt-the senses' law.

God will'd that thou, in witnessing his glory,

Should'st keep all his commandments, and ordain'd His will thus all things else on earth he made Beneficent, for thee-thee for himself.

ADAM.

There is a God-yca, whose divinity

The Earth and Sea, the Sun in his uprising,